12 comments:

Wow, that's ridiculous. I have seen my fair share of these in Guatemala as well as Ruddy-capped. I'm from Jersey and I don't know how well documented this bird is yet, but can you list some of the field marks that might be absent in the photos? Awesome sighting!

Eric, it would be a good idea to post a written documentation of this bird along with your photos. Did you get any recordings of it's song? You're gonna need everything you can get on this bird to get it past the ABA records committee.

I posted your sighting to SD-birds. If you post more details on the exact location and a write-up on it, I can then post that to SD-birds for you.

Eric, can you give details about location and more specifics that give you reason to believe it is an orange billed nightingale thrush. If you are really confident of the bird this would be worthy of an aba rare bird alert post. I imagine many would want to see this bird.